live remotes and screens

 this show that i saw last week - a remarkable use of live video and screens. the actor - madeline best - (who is also a dancer, though doesn't here)  is behind the screen and on the other side of the screen are two little cameras that follow her remotely - there's also a white curtain behind her which also funcitons as a screen and played a time delayed image - the two cameras apparnetly followed her by some kind of remote ability -- and i thought some version of this might work for us.

http://www.chocolatefactorytheater.org/e_selectivememory_2010.html

The Chocolate Factory - Selective Memory (in progress)

February 11-13, 2010 8PM

video still | Madeline Best and Brian Rogers A real time video performance about nostalgia for relationships that never took place, events which never happened; the soundtrack to a film which was never made, but which everyone remembers; exploiting the misappropriation of "real" sounds and images to confound, distort, remake and ultimately erase the truth. Inspired by William Eggleston's video pieces, especially Stranded in Canton, and the processed ambient music of Christian Fennesz and Stars of the Lid - in which the source material and instrumentation used to create the music is processed and recontextualized to the point of near impenetrability - music which feels as if it comes from nothing and is about nothing but around which a certain undeniable poignancy settles like fog.

Created by

Madeline Best

Chloe Z. Brown

Maggie Dick

Brad Kisicki

Sheila Lewandowski

Brian Rogers is i believe the main person behind this. he operated the cameras and computers live.

Sophie Hindenberger